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  1. prequels
    Call Stockard Channing Because the Grease Prequel Is Revving Up at Paramount+They oughta pull a Wet Hot American Summer and cast the Pink Ladies even older, this time.
    By Rebecca Alter
  2. tv review
    I’m Just a Girl Who Can’t Say No to Schmigadoon!I love this Golden Age Musical pastiche with the helplessness of a protagonist being yanked into an indulgent, unnecessary dream ballet.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  3. the most swankified network in town
    Look to the PBS-tern Sky for a ‘Wicked’ Celebrity ConcertComing AaaAAaahhhh-gust 29.
    By Jackson McHenry
  4. theater
    Sara Bareilles Is Bringing Waitress Back to Broadway This FallThe show closed before the pandemic, and yet it’s back again.
    By Jackson McHenry
  5. musicals
    Pop Sensation Vin Diesel Wants to Do a Fast & Furious Musical“I’m dying to do a musical!”
    By Rebecca Alter
  6. tv
    The Show-Tunes-Obsessed Mormons Behind Schmigadoon!Ken Daurio and Cinco Paul’s send-up of musical theater is both wholesome and really, really funny.
    By Chris Norris
  7. horse girl energy
    Watch Megan Hilty Sing About Being a Manic Cartoon CentaurWelcome to Centaurworld.
    By Rebecca Alter
  8. movie review
    Ramshackle Dreams Make In the Heights a Believable FairytaleUncertainty, humanity, and fantasy turn this Broadway adaptation into a show-stopper.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  9. leaping lizards
    Taraji P. Henson to Star As Miss Hannigan in NBC’s Annie Live! We love you, Miss Hannigan!
    By Zoe Haylock
  10. nature is healing
    Perfectly Named Britney Spears Musical Will Have Its World Premiere in D.C.It’s called Once Upon a One More Time and it’s being put on by the Shakespeare Theatre Company.
    By Rebecca Alter
  11. musicals
    Scooter Braun to Bring You New Music of the Night With Phantom AdaptationBohemian Rhapsody’s Anthony McCarten will pen the film, based on Gaston Leroux’s 1910 novel.
    By Halle Kiefer
  12. trailer mix
    Everybody’s Talking About Jamie Trailer: Better Teenage-ing Through DragComing to Amazon September 17.
    By Jackson McHenry
  13. trailer mix
    Dear Evan Hansen Trailer: Ben Platt Reprises His Role As a Straight TeenThe Broadway adaptation hits theaters September 24.
    By Zoe Haylock
  14. live tv musicals
    Annie Live! Will Come Out, Well, Not Tomorrow, But During the Holidays on NBCThe live TV musical tradition returns, this time directed by Lear deBessonet.
    By Jackson McHenry
  15. reopening
    Chicago to Rouge Knees, Roll Stockings Down, Return to Broadway on September 14And all that jazz!
    By Jackson McHenry
  16. broadway
    The Pop Queens of Six Will Start Belting on Broadway Again This SeptemberThe pop musical was originally supposed to open the night Broadway shut down.
    By Jackson McHenry
  17. broadway
    The Phantom of the Opera Returning to Broadway in OctoberTickets go on sale May 7 at 9 a.m.
    By Bethy Squires
  18. theater
    A Great Gatsby Musical from Florence Welch Has Gotten a Green LightNo, not a stage version of the Baz Luhrmann movie.
    By Jackson McHenry
  19. broadway
    Hugh Jackman Belts Out a Statement About Scott Rudin in All CapsMust get rid of toxic in community.
    By Rebecca Alter
  20. la la land
    China Based Its Xinjiang Agitprop Musical on La La LandThe Wings of Songs is set in an idyllic version of Xinjiang, scrubbed of any Islamic signifiers.
    By Rebecca Alter
  21. broadway
    Diana Musical to Return to Broadway in December, After Premiering on NetflixIt’s the first Broadway production to set a date for reopening.
    By Jackson McHenry
  22. musicals
    A Queen’s Gambit Musical Will Revive Chess Onstage Without Reviving ChessBut why not just revive Chess?
    By Jackson McHenry
  23. the art of ending things
    There Are Only Two Types of Musical Endings That MatterCan you tell we really miss Broadway?
    By Rebecca Alter
  24. musicals
    Paramount Getting to Know You Want a King and I RemakeThe studio has acquired the rights to the Tony-winning Rodgers and Hammerstein musical.
    By Halle Kiefer
  25. soundtracks
    Brandy Proves She Hasn’t Aged a Day in Magical Cinderella MedleySuch fol-de-rol and fiddle-dee-dee of course is impossible!
    By Zoe Haylock
  26. role call
    Brandy Answers Every Question We Have About CinderellaOn singing with Whitney Houston, the fate of the movie’s soundtrack, and building up impossible hopes for Black girls everywhere.
    By Zoe Haylock
  27. thank goodness!
    Wicked’s Director Has Been Changed for the Better to Jon M. ChuThey deserve each other, this film and Chu. They’re both so … smart!
    By Rebecca Alter
  28. casting call
    Emma Thompson to Hurl You Over the Fence in Netflix’s Matilda MusicalAlisha Weir will play the titular telekinetic kid in the streamer’s adaptation of the Broadway musical.
    By Halle Kiefer
  29. extremely online
    The Rats Hidden Under All Our Hats Helped Ratatouille Musical Raise Over $1MProceeds from the TikTok musical will go to the Actors Fund.
    By Halle Kiefer
  30. off off broadway
    Ashley Park Got a Sign From the Universe to Do the Ratatouille MusicalThe ghost of Gusteau pulls through yet again.
    By Rebecca Alter
  31. theater
    Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical Cooks Up a Cast of Broadway Heavy-HittersTituss Burgess and Andrew Barth Feldman will star.
    By Justin Curto
  32. obits
    Rebecca Luker, Three-Time Tony Nominee, Dead at 59She had previously announced an ALS diagnosis in February.
    By Justin Curto
  33. vulture bets on berry
    Matt Berry Should Play Most of the Parts in The Phantom of the OperaGet Andrew Lloyd Webber on the damn phone.
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  34. live tv
    Is It Still Broadway If It’s Hosted by Tina Fey and Aired on NBC?Let’s discuss that Best of Broadway special.
    By Chris Murphy and Helen Shaw
  35. stink stank stunk
    The Highs, Lows, and Lower Lows of Matthew Morrison’s Live Grinch MusicalHey, at least Denis O’Hare got paid.
    By Jackson McHenry
  36. zazz?
    Nicole Kidman Seen Recklessly Giving It Some Zazz in The PromShe’s dreamed a little dream of a Fosse number.
    By Jackson McHenry
  37. dee dee allen
    Happy Thanksgiving, Now Here’s Another Trailer for The Prom“Okay, I admit that got to me.”
    By Rebecca Alter
  38. extremely online
    Broadway Is Closed, But Ratatouille the Musical Is Cooking on TikTok“Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be embracing people referring to me as the ‘rat queen.’”
    By Rebecca Alter
  39. coming soon
    Spike Lee’s Next Joint Is … a Movie-Musical About ViagraNeedless to say, he’s excited.
    By Zoe Haylock
  40. cinematic seussiverse
    Matthew Morrison to Ruin ChristmasHe will be the Grinch.
    By Rebecca Alter
  41. regional theater
    Diane Warren Wrote a Musical Around Stories of Sexual Harassment in HollywoodLouisette Geiss, a Weinstein accuser, co-wrote the book of The Right Girl.
    By Jackson McHenry
  42. casting
    Amy Adams to Remind Us She Can Sing in Dear Evan Hansen MovieIn case you forgot about Enchanted.
    By Justin Curto
  43. adaptations
    Black Is King’s Blitz Bazawule to Direct Movie Based on The Color Purple MusicalThe co-director of Beyoncé’s recent visual album will helm a feature adaption of the Broadway musical.
    By Halle Kiefer
  44. fair points
    Andrew Lloyd Webber Says the Cats Movie Is ‘Ridiculous’ and He’ll Tell You WhyWell, he’s not wrong.
    By Halle Kiefer
  45. parade movie when
    Disney+, Clearly Run by Theater Kids, Is Making a Once on This Island MovieJocelyn Bioh is writing the script, with Wanuri Kahiu directing.
    By Jackson McHenry
  46. hamilton
    Everything We Learned From Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton Watch Party on TwitterHave you heard? Hamilton debuted on Disney+ Friday.
    By Halle Kiefer
  47. movie review
    The Hamilton Movie Swings Open the Doors of BroadwayThe Disney+ version of the musical is in-your-face at a moment when nothing is allowed to be in your face.
    By Helen Shaw and Mark Harris
  48. trailer mix
    Look Around, Look Around, Disney’s Hamilton Trailer Has Arrived Right NowFinally, you can see what all the hype is about.
    By Halle Kiefer
  49. happy juneteenth
    Kenya Barris and Pharrell Developing Juneteenth Musical Movie Over at NetflixThe film project is reportedly distinct from the stage musical the pair announced back in 2018.
    By Halle Kiefer
  50. tv review
    Central Park Could Be Great If It Gets Out of Its Own WayThe Apple TV+ animated musical from Loren Bouchard and Josh Gad is working out the kinks, but has the potential to become an extremely endearing show.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
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